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‘Black Man 101 ’ Curriculum Revised Again
‘The talk’ just
got even harder
to deliver
H is k ille r’s acquittal illustrates how em erge alive and unscathed. W e
the rules have ch an g ed once m ore, steel ourselves for the qu estio n that
turning the clock back.
alw ays follow s: W hy?
A s a p a re n t,I’m a B la c k M a n 101
F ro m the m om ent o u r children
p ro fesso r as w ell as a lifelong are b o m , all parents w o rk hard to
student. A ll parents o f A frican- keep them safe. Y ou w ant them to
by T errance H eath
A m erican sons m u st have “T he feel safe. B ut, the parents o f black
A re y o u fa m ilia r
T a lk .” W e kn o w too w ell the boys have to flip the script at som e
w ith “Black M an 101??
sto ries o f u n arm ed A frican - point. W e explain to o u r kids that
B lack m en n ev er get to
A m erican m en beaten, b ru tal­ the w o rld is not a safe place fo r them
graduate from this con­
ized, and k illed by the police. in w ays that it is fo r o th er people.
stantly ch an g in g and
T heir nam es haunt us, their faces
B lack M an 101 students once
m andatory course in survival and loom in o u r m inds, and w e im agine learned “Jim C row etiq u ette.” T h eir
b eh av io r m odification.
o u r sons being in th eir so n s’ places. lives dep en d ed on being agreeable
W ith the acquittal o f T ray v o n
So w e tell o ur sons that, as young an d n o n -c h a llen g in g w ith w h ite
M a rtin ’s killer, the B lack M an 101 b lack m en, th ey ’ll be held as sus­ people, ev en w hen w hites w ere in
cu rricu lu m has been revised again. pects and som etim es treated as crim i­ the w rong. U nder no circu m stan ces
T h e u n arm ed te e n ’s sh o o tin g nals, ev en if th e y ’ve clearly done w ere they to even ap p ear to assum e
m ade m illions o f A frican-A m erican nothing w rong. W e tell them how to eq u ality w ith w hites.
parents realize that any o f o u r sons co n d u ct th em selves in encounters
T h e a c q u it ta l o f T r a y v o n
co u ld be the next T ray v o n M artin. w ith the police so that they m ay M artin ’s killer harkens back to those
old deferential rules.
W e already teach o u r sons to be
“ ag reeab le” and “n o n -ch allen g in g ”
w ith police. M ust w e now teach o u r
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L ast fall, m y old est son go t his
first hoodie. T he m om ent he put it
on and p u lled the h o o d o v er his
head, I saw T ray v o n M artin ’s face.
I saw m y son in T ra y v o n ’s place.
H e ’s old en o u g h to have heard
about T rayvon. T h at led to an early
version o f “T he T a lk .” A t the end
c a m e th e in e v ita b le q u e s tio n :
“W hy?”
I held m y son close. I told him that
som e p eople only see the co lo r o f
his skin and w hat they choose to
p roject on him becau se o f it.
It’s no t fair. It ju s t is.
T he an sw er is as heartbreaking
to give as it is to receive. It’s the
m om ent w hen a ch ild ’s safe w orld is
p erm an en tly shattered.
N ow , h aving been acquitted o f
k illin g T ray v o n M artin , G eo rg e
Z im m erm an not only has his free­
dom back, h e ’s go t the gun he used
to end that young m a n ’s life.
A s the fath er o f tw o A frican-
A m erican boys, this is the stu ff o f
n ightm ares. “T h e T a lk ” ju s t got
even h a rd e r to deliver. W e not only
have to tell o u r sons that they live in
a w orld w here the c o lo r o f th eir skin
m akes them vulnerable. W e have to
tell them their killer could ultim ately
w alk aw ay a free m an.
F o r o u r children, the w orld is
n either safe n o r ju st. T h a t’s the ugly
truth.
Terrance Heath is the online
producer at Campaign fo r
America's Future.